Whip-lash



(No Model.)

J. L. CRISP.

WHIP LASH. No. 391,884. Patented Oct. 30, 1 888.

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JAMES IJ- CRISP, OF BLOOMFIELD, NEW JERSEY.

WHIP LASH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,884, dated October 30, 1888.

Application filed March 5, 1888. Serial No. 266,144.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES L. CRISP, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bloomfield, Essex county, New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Whip-Lashes, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming apart of the same.

The object of this invention is to use the scraps madein the manufacture of small leather belting in constructing a weighted whip-lash: and it consists in a whip-lash weighted by means of an enlargement formed upon the thong composing the lash by applying thereto a narrow perforated strip of leather or other suitable material and then running the same between suitable grooved rollers to compress or mash such parts together and toround such enlargement.

Heretofore a weighted lash has been formed of a single piece of leather by cutting a narrow strip for the main part of the thong and widening the same at the point to be weighted. By the use of such construction, however, it was necessary to cut the strips specially for making such lashes.

In practicing my invention only the scraps left after making the round leather belting commonly used for sewing-machines need be used as materials. In the manufacture of such belting there are always piecesleft over which are too short for belts, but which are of suitable length for whiplashes. It is such pieces that I use for the thong, and from any flat pieces of suitable size taken from the scraps I out the strip for weighting'such thong.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a. plan and Fig. 2 an edge view of the perforated leather strip constituting the weight. Fig. 3 is a plan and Fig. 4. an edge View of the perforated leather strip applied to the thong; and Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4, showing the weighted part of the lush entirely finished.

(t is a narrow strip of leaiher provided with a row of holes or perforations, a, at intervals (No model.)

along its entire length; and I) is the thong constituting the main part of the lash. The

' strip a is secured upon the thong b by thread ing the latter into the former-that is, passing the thong through the holes a in the strip a alternately from one side to the other along its whole length, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. Such portion of the lash is then moistened and passed between suitable grooved rollers to compress or mash the same together and to round it to prevent the edges or corners of the leather from project-ing and give it a neater appearance. The strip a may also be used for joining two short pieces of belting which would not be long enough separately to form a lash of thedesired length. In such case an end of each of the pieces would be laced into the strip a and would be firmlylocked therein by passing the whole between the grooved rollers to mash them together.

I do not limit myself to the use of leather scraps from which to make the perforated strip a or to its application to a whiplash formed of leather, as any other suitable material might be used instead of leather wit-l1 the same effect.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim herein is 1. The combination, with the thong of a whip-lash, of a narrow strip of suitable material having a row of perforations and threaded upon the thong, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with the thong of a whip-lash, of a narrow strip of suitable material having a row of perforations and threaded upon the lash and rolled to round and compress it, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES L. CRISP.

\Vitnesses:

'lnos. S. CRANE, HENRY J. IVIILLER. 

